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members with

immunity

from

arrest

anywhere at any time

during a session in any civil

and protection from

cause,

arrest within the precincts of

the House while the House is

sitting, in a civil or criminal

matter, without the leave of the

House;

(c) exemption from jury service,

confirmed by the Juries Act 1870;

(d)

exemption from attending any

court as a witness.

4.

The Attorney General of the time commented on

these four principal privileges as follows

(a) case law established that the

privilege

of

statements was

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